Kelly E. Wright
● (865) 356-3588 ● 4030 Tate’s Creek Road #3985● Lexington, KY40517
EDUCATION
Masters of Linguistic Theory and TypologyAugust 2015-Present
The University of Kentucky – Lexington, KentuckyCurrent G.P.A. 4.0
Masters Thesis (in progress)–Committee members: Dr. Kevin McGowan (chair), Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf, Dr. Edward Barrett, Dr. Sasha Johnson-Coleman (Norfolk State University)
Bachelor of Arts - English Literature December 2014
Maryville College - Maryville, Tennessee G.P.A. 3.99
Senior Thesis - NoOrdinary Wind: Ghanaian Linguistic Identity in the Modern English Superstructure
Associate of Science December 2012
Pellissippi State Community College - Knoxville, TennesseeG.P.A. 3.98
PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
●Presenting “SWOLE” master thesis research at the 38th Annual Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association Conference February 15th-18th in Albuquerque, NM
●Presented “Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context” at the 2nd International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies, Sarajevo September 30th – October 1st 2016
●Invited to give “Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context” talk at the UK Linguistics Incubator for Collaborative Digital Research (September 2016)
●Invited by Dr. Sasha Johnson Coleman to lecture on the undergraduate thesis process and its long-term benefits to her ENG 405 English Thesis Capstone courseat Norfolk State University, September 27, 2016
●Presented “The Serena Williams Opprobrious Language Experiment” at The 2016 Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference and the UK English Department Casual Colloquium April 2016 Session
●Taught a day-long children’s workshop, Learning Phonology through the World’s Animal Sounds, for Kentucky Educational Linguistics Outreach (KLEO) atLingoFest 2015
●Requested by Associate Professor Allison Stein to guest lecture for Modern World History in Fall 2014
●Displayed award-winning poster of senior thesis work at Lincoln Memorial University’s 21stAnnual Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference
●Presented “The Feminine Underground” and a selection of poetry at Lee University Literary Symposium 2013
●Selected as Fall 2012’s Student Recipient Speaker at the Donors and Scholars Reception
●Nominated by faculty as 2012’s student invitee to the Gnosis Faculty Lecture Series to present“What the Frack?!” a hydraulic fracturing information project; video available on PSCC blogs
●Selected by Dr. Robert Lloyd to appear in Faculty Lecture Series Staged Reading of Ajax as Techmessa
PUBLICATIONS
●Review of Cacchiani, Mazzi, Bondi (2015) Discourse In and Through the Media: Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse” published on LinguistList
●“Accounting for VoxPopuli: Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context” African Transitions (November 2016)
●“Scapegoat” published inImaginary Gardens Spring 2015 edition
●Published “Ophidia”, “Soma”, and “AKP” in Impressions 40th Anniversary print edition
●Several poems selected by faculty and peers for 2013Imaginary Gardens Literary Magazine
HONORS AND AWARDS
University of South CarolinaJune 2015
●International Student Services Graduate Assistantship (declined)
University of Kentucky March 2015
●Granted the Royster Excellence Award by College Executive Committee
●Teaching Assistantship for Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
University of GeorgiaMarch 2015
●Awarded Linguistics Graduate Program’s only Research Assistantship (declined)
Lincoln Memorial UniversityMarch 2014
●Outstanding Poster Award for 21st Annual Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference
Maryville College January2013-August 2014
●Achieved Latin Honors, Summa Cum Laude, upon degree completion
●Awarded one of two Competitive Summer Internship Grants from MC Center for Calling and Career
●Inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honors Society for Adults Continuing Higher Education and Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society
●Ragsdale Study Abroad Scholarship for Ghana Study and Service 2014
●Phi Theta Kappa Merit Scholarship for 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years
Pellissippi State Community College August-December 2012
●Sole recipient of 2012 English Department Outstanding Graduate Award, chosen by English Faculty
●Females Continuing Education Scholarship (declined)
OTHER EDUCATION
●Invited to and attended the 2016 UK Graduate Student Leadership Conference
●Attended R Minicourse with Dr. Bodo Winter at the LSA 2016 Annual Meeting
●Received certification of Intermediate Turkish proficiency from the Knoxville Turkish Cultural Center
EXPERIENCE
University of KentuckyAugust 2015-Present
Lead Instructor May 2016-May 2017
●Linguistics 211
- Taught a 4-week intensive online summer session, which incorporated interactive videoed lectures presented on LectureTools
- Oversaw transitionof course shell, including all materials and templates, to new digital instruction platform, Canvas, for future TA and faculty use
●Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies 110 and 111
- Teaching two sections per semester of a multimodal writing and communications course in which students create digital, oral, and written projects exploring their place in the broader community
- Participated in year-long pedagogy development and TA mentorship program
Teaching AssistantAugust 2015-May 2016
●Robert E. Hemenway Writing Center Professional Consultant
- Fielded questions on content development, analysis, and organization structure, providing composition and presentation guidance from start to finish on graduate and undergraduate projects
●International Conversation Hour Moderator
University of South Carolina—Columbia
Internship with Professor Emeritus Dr. Michael MontgomeryJune-August 2014
●Built digital corpus of Irish immigrant letters (1675-1900; 748 letters)
- Inventoried and digitized manuscripts and typescripts from archival collections
- Identified and catalogued new additions from digital repositories
●Prepared an analysis of Hiberno-English speech markers in naïve writing
●Completed entries of the Dictionary of Appalachian English
- Updated OED citations to reflect digital edition additions and filled DARE queries providing usage examples for 300+ entries
●Utilized ExpressScribe to transcribe Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike oral histories
●Attended Children’s Literature Association 41st Annual Conference with Drs. Tracey Weldon and Elaine Chun
Pellissippi State Community College (PSCC) – Hardin ValleyAugust 2010-July 2015
Academic AdvisorAugust 2011-July 2015
●Facilitated student registration, graduation applications, and career counseling at all campuses
●Coordinated project development, grant writing,institutional objectives, student success tracking,andmanagement of temporary staff for the Ben Atchley Veteran’s Center—Appointed Advising Liaison
●Developed an entirely new initiative, the Transfer Workshop, to be implemented Spring 2016
●Crafted front desk and new advisor training guides, orientation syllabi, and resource repository
Supplemental Instruction (SI) Coordinator AssistantMay 2012-July 2013
●Collected, recorded, and evaluated SI program statistics (2011-2013) for Tennessee Board of Regents
●Designed and monitored SI resource depository on D2L (Blackboard) site
●Facilitated and led on-campus training weekend including creation and editing of training video
●Directed as student success interim coordinator mentor scheduling, on-campus resource management, and bi-weekly campus newsletter editing/writing, scheduled Faculty Senate, Fee Board, and Distance-learning meetings
English 1010/1020 Supplemental Instructor (SI)January-May 2011
●Communicated bi-weekly with professors regarding student problem areas and target skills
●Formulated lesson plans and led weekly supplemental sessions for approximately 60 students
ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP
University of Kentucky August 2015-Present
●Appointed Linguistics Club President
- This graduate and undergraduate organization aims to advance ourselves in the field at large, and to augment the surrounding community’s understanding of Linguistics as the scientific study of language.
●Designated Sociolinguistics Reading Group topic curator and session leader
- 2015: Language in The City; 2016: Language in Social Institutions
Project South May 2015-September 2015
●Volunteered as a transcriber during summer 2015 on the Civil Rights oral history documentation initiative with Dr. Daniel Hartwig at Stanford Special Collections
Maryville CollegeAugust 2014-May 2015
●Sigma Tau Delta Vice President Alpha Rho Kappa Chapter
PSCC Hardin Valley CampusJanuary 2012-May 2013
●Student Government Parliamentarian
●Service Learning on-campus representative
●Sustainable Campus Initiative Assistant
●Student Life Fee Board representative
References Available Upon Request